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<p>[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 9738520, member: 29"]Went to a little table top yesterday, as you do. One bloke selling is usually at another teeny tiny table top where it costs twenty pence - yes, really - to get in. </p><p><br /></p><p>He said he was having to charge slightly more at this table top than the other one (!). So, the Antica Murrina, the two Attwood & Sawyer pieces and two other brooches were a whole ten pounds. The pearls, real, were a fiver. Bless him, I'd grabbed the necklace and he then called me back ten minutes later because he'd found the bracelet, so gave it to me. He also sold me the yellow plastic necklace on my other thread. One whole quid. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another Clever bloke, Bruce, had apparently looked at all this lot and sneered at it. Bruce then sold me a Blue John and silver necklace for ten quid. Bruce had another bit of Blue John which he had labelled properly. But this, he thought, was amethyst. It ain't. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]475658[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475659[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475660[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475661[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475662[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475663[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475664[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475665[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475666[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475667[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ownedbybear, post: 9738520, member: 29"]Went to a little table top yesterday, as you do. One bloke selling is usually at another teeny tiny table top where it costs twenty pence - yes, really - to get in. He said he was having to charge slightly more at this table top than the other one (!). So, the Antica Murrina, the two Attwood & Sawyer pieces and two other brooches were a whole ten pounds. The pearls, real, were a fiver. Bless him, I'd grabbed the necklace and he then called me back ten minutes later because he'd found the bracelet, so gave it to me. He also sold me the yellow plastic necklace on my other thread. One whole quid. Another Clever bloke, Bruce, had apparently looked at all this lot and sneered at it. Bruce then sold me a Blue John and silver necklace for ten quid. Bruce had another bit of Blue John which he had labelled properly. But this, he thought, was amethyst. It ain't. [ATTACH=full]475658[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475659[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475660[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475661[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475662[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475663[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475664[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475665[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475666[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]475667[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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